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Knowledge is one of the best weapons in LoL. Knowing your opponent’s runes, masteries or rank can help you itemize against them more efficiently. Per example, if you’re up against a Pantheon with 21/9/0 masteries, it would be a good idea to start with a cloth armour and five potions in order to mitigate most of his damage.

Using the tool is fairly simple, join a LoL game, and wait for the loading screen. This tool will not work in champion select!

Now, minimize the LoL loading screen by pressing ALT+TAB and go to the LoL Nexus Scouter. Type your summoner name in the text box, choose the correct server, and press “Search”:

After a few seconds of loading, you should now see a screen similar to this one:

Simply by analysing this screen, I know a bunch of stuff that could be very useful. I’m playing Zac against Ryze top, and I know that him and the jungler (Jax) are premade. Therefore, it is important for me to only go all-in against Ryze when I’m sure that the jungler is far enough to not be a threat, since, chances are they’re on Skype, and Ryze could bait me into a fight that will result in my death (as always, wards op!).

There’s also a bunch of other interesting information, such as the rank of the players, their number of normal wins, their rune and their masteries. If you know your enemy, you win lane, and win game!

That’s it for this article, I hope you found it interesting!
-Icosebyte

I don’t know about you guys, but sometimes im a bit tired of the normal announcer in LoL. So i tried to find a way to change the announcer’s voice into something else and I found this beautiful program : Demonic-Announcer V2.

It is very easy to use and the results are very good, the only sad thing about it is that you can’t change the voice for whatever you want, but other than that, it’s an awesome little program.

First Step

Step 2

When the download is complete, you will have to select a folder to install Demonic-Announcer. When it’s done installing, you only have to open the program. It will have to download some updates the first time you open it.

Step 3

When the updates are installed, it will ask you if you want to sign up as a tester for the V3, I said no but it’s your choice Then, you follow these images :

Then select your LoL launcher :

When it’s done, click on the small black box on bottom left and it will take you back, but this time you can select the basic button :

Create Rebuild will run a backup for you, so your LoL file is safe. then wait, the backup can take a moment. When it’s completed, click on Next Step.

Now, you have to select all the sounds ( voices ) you want. You can mix them. The left red circle shows the different announcers, if you click on one of them, a list of sounds will appear in the centre red circle. You can select a single sound and click on (Add) to add it or you can click on (Add All) to add all the sounds from this announcer. You can also hear a preview of each sound. When you are done selecting your sounds, click on the (Use Sounds) button, here in the blue circle.

When you added the sounds you want, click on (Next Step).

And finally, click on (Compile & Install).

When it’s done, click on (Finished!) and here you go ! You have your new announcer’s voices ! It will create a new Demonic-Announcer folder, don’t be surprised.

Last thing

When there’s a LoL update, you will have to change your voices again, but the backup will not be as long as the first time so it’s not very long. Have fun using your new voices !

I think we all agree that the stock League of Legends maps are pretty cool. Nonetheless, wouldn’t it be nice to have a bit more variety? Perhaps a winter version of Summoner’s Rift?

Fortunately, the LoL community has come up with a marvellous program that allows just that! In this article, I will show you the steps you need to follow in order to install these so-called “map skins”.

Step one – Downloading “Skin Installer Ultimate”:

First and foremost, we need this nice little program. “Skin Installer Ultimate” is the program that will allow you to easily mod your LoL installation in order to install whichever skin you like. To download the program, go to this link: https://sites.google.com/site/siuupdates/ and click on “Download Version x.xxx Now!”

This will download a *.zip file containing the program. Extract the contents of this file to a folder of your choice and open this folder:

Now, click on “Skin Installer Ultimate.exe” to start the program, which looks like this:

Once the download is finished, go back to Skin Installer Ultimate and click on “Add Files”:

Then browse to the map you’ve downloaded, and select it:

Now, wait a few seconds for the file to load, the click the “Add to DataBase” Button. Enter a meaningful name in the text box that appears, and click ok.

Finally, go to the “==Install Existing Skin==” Tab, select the check box that corresponds to the skin we’ve just added, and click “Install”:

You will be shown an “Install Preferences” windows. Check the options you want, then click save. You’ll now have another window, this time for the “Skin Character Selection Options”. Select the options you want and click “Done”.

Wait for several seconds (can even go up to a few minutes), and you should now be prompted with an “Install Complete” message!

That’s how you can install custom League of Legends maps! You can now start LoL and enjoy your new Summoner’s Rift!

I’m a huge stats nerd. That being said, one of the things I enjoy most out of League of Legends is the fact that I can always check how many games I’ve lost or won, as well as loads of other data.

Now, the other day, I was looking up my stats when my friend, who was sitting next to me asks:

-“Hey, where did you go to find those charts, they’re awesome!”

This question took me by surprise, since I thought every decent LoL player already knew how to check their personal statistics. What I found out was that I was one of the rare (low elo) people that knew how to.

This is why I decided to write this article: to share my knowledge to all the LoL players out there who are also stats nerds!

I cannot stress how much I love this site. It has a huge amount of information regarding every champion in the game, plus your own personal stats!

If you click on “Champions”, you are presented with a table that shows the price, popularity, win rate and ban rate of each champ:

So that’s nice and everything, but what if you want to see your personal standings? Well, you see that search box at the top of the page, right under the “Lolking” title? All you need to do is type your summoner name in said search box. For the sake of this tutorial, I’ll just type Crs Voyboy.

I am then presented with all the CRS Voyboys (one per server). I can then click on the one from North America (The Voyboy we all know!) to see all his personal stats!

Simply do the same thing with YOUR summoner name to check your League of Legends stats! Awesome eh?

The other day, I was playing an ARAM (they are so much fun!) and decided to change my key bindings. I had made a few modifications to them the game before and wasn’t happy with them: I wanted the defaults back. So anyway, I go into the League of Legends options menu and reset my key bindings, then go back to the game.

Seeing that my team is getting pulverized by the enemy fiddle, I quickly right-click to go help them… But my character (Lux) refuses to move. I try again, and still nothing. I then proceed to frantically smash my right mouse button, yet to no avail.

My team then starts to rage at me, obviously:

-Lux afk?

-Lux, come here!

-OMG Lux noob.

-/all report Lux plz.

Since the chat still works, I try to explain the situation: I’m not afk, I just CAN’T MOVE. Unfortunately, they don’t listen and continue raging, while I sit there, powerless as our Nexus gets destroyed.

After we lost that game, I create a custom game vs bots to see if the problem persists…. and it does. I try disconnecting and reconnecting, restarting my computer, resetting my options to the defaults, yet nothing works.

Finally, in a stroke of genius, my friend (who is a computer nerd just like me), proposes that I delete my LoL configuration files. His reasoning behind this is that, since my problem started after I tried to change my key bindings; it’s probably that the configuration files got corrupt.

How I fixed it:

Taking my friend’s advice, I opened up windows explorer and navigated to C:\Riot Games\League of Legends and deleted the Config folder. Once this is done, I fire up League of Legends and… surprise surprise, it works now!

That’s it for today, I hope this helps out the people out there who can’t move in LoL!